3s To Center, Again

 My lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  Okay ice, still a little rutted.  I warmed up with edges and scribed circles.

For today's lesson, we continued working on the 3s to center. A little bit of improvement, mostly in that I'm more aware of what my problems are and slightly more willing to attempt the turn.  It's still far from a thing of beauty though.  Ugh.

3s to Center

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  About 8 skaters. The ice was very rutted (though, most of them were not deep).  I scribed circles and warmed up with F and B edges, which were actually more or less okay.

For today's lesson we decided to work on 3s to center as we have not done them in about forever.  As I rather expected, the hard part was convincing myself to actually attempt the turn after having sat on that FO edge for... forever.  Forget about the BI edge after!

Anyway, we did put in some solid work and I did at least attempt them (I also fell over one of the aforementioned ruts.  Grrr).

B8s

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate. I scribed circles and warmed up with edges.

Today's lesson:

• BO8 -- Still working on improving my posture.  Push is still lacking.  Ugh.  The LBO is definitely better than the RBO.
• BI8 -- just a few minutes on these.  Posture is better, but push is so weak I'm not getting far.  Ugh.

Jumps

 My lesson with Holly on the CCIC 5:20 FS.  Ice was just okay, and about 11 skaters (competition on Saturday!).

No warmup as we started right away.

Today's lesson:

• waltz jump -- actually not bad.  Decent height and length.  We did a few to improve to work on holding the landing and not leaning out of the circle.
• Salchow -- hmm.  We did a bunch of these and finally got the takeoff to be more or less at the right time.  There was even some 'jump' in the jump.  But the landing is still wonky.
• toe loop -- hmm.  Still very cheated, and I need to jump 'over' (to the right) more.  Ugh.  Still considering how long it's been I really can't complain.

It was great to have a lesson with Holly again, but with the rink schedule and our work office moving I'm not sure what I'll do going forward to make this happen. Ugh.

3s

 My figures lesson with Danette on the Chandler adult skate.  I was able to warmup all my edges and scribe some circles.

Today's lesson was more on 3s.  Taking the insights we had about the trailing arm from last week, we kept working on trying to hold that upper body position.  We worked on the boards, and then on the circle, and toward the end we grabbed a hockey stick to make that trailing arm stay back. It really does help. This is going to take a while to fix, I think.  Eep.